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ReDoS via long string of semicolons in tough-cookie

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 10, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 11, 2023

Package

npm tough-cookie (npm)

Affected versions

< 2.3.0

Patched versions

2.3.0

Description

Affected versions of tough-cookie may be vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when long strings of semicolons exist in the Set-Cookie header.

Recommendation

Update to version 2.3.0 or later.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 10, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Apr 11, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-1000232

GHSA ID

GHSA-qhv9-728r-6jqg

Source code

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